![]() For that aerial pursuit, the company offers the Infinity Air model. In fairness to the ZX-1, it is not billed as a wakeboard boat. "But for a 75-foot rope length, which is mainly the length we use to test, it's just perfect at all speeds," he added. About the only criticism he could muster concerned the boat's roostertail, which was a bit distracting at 22 feet off the tow line. Those wakes remained soft and flat, regardless of rope length. That always pleases our skier, but what pleased him more was the boat's perfectly flat wakes at speeds from 32 to 36 mph. Our skier came out of deep-water starts, one after the next, without getting his hair wet. So potent was the boat's pull, in fact, that our unsuspecting boarder got yanked out of his bindings on the first start. One found it confining, the other found it comfortable. Both drivers also had high praise for the boat's mirror, which could be clamped onto whatever section of the windshield that each preferred. Skiing Our ski and wakeboard testers, as well as our test drivers, agreed: The ZX-1 turned and tracked precisely, and delivered a monster pull. A few options raised the as-tested price to $32,366. Base price for the ZX-1 with a PCM 310-hp EFI 5.7-liter motor is $29,995, a bargain for a dedicated towboat. It pulled like a demon while laying down soft, flat wakes. The 22'5"-long, 7'7"-wide model sure looked the part, with its closed deck, teak swim platform, and a center-mounted motor box. The company's founders are slalom skiers. Infinity Ski Boats is no exception, but for its first entry in our Performance Trials, the manufacturer opted to send a traditional inboard ski boat. ![]() (All photos by Tom Newby) With the sonic boom in wakeboarding, most ski-boat builders now offer wakeboard-specific boats or, at the very least, hybrid models. The Infinity ZX-1 ran 48 mph, which is plenty fast for a tow boat.
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